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Amaris and the Fire of Renewal

Robin saw a cave and he cried, "Into Lapis Cave!"

The six Pokémon ran into the cave that was as blue as the dark night skies. They wandered around the cavern's winding paths until they entered into a crossroad.

Amaris cried, "Half of you will cover the left, me and my team will go right."

Irwin exclaimed, "No way! We can't split up; if we do that we can our butts handed to us on a plate!"

Robin said in concern, "He's right Amaris. We need to stick together because we're stronger in numbers."

Badru started scouting ahead and he found a hole leading to daylight.

He cried, "Hey guys! I found the exit!"

The other five ran to the hole and they saw a mountain covered in lava.

Irwin cried, "Crikey! We're doomed! Not one of us can survive through that heat!"

Robin said, "I'm a fire type, but it's becoming even too hot for me to handle."

Badru heard a mob screaming, "Destroy Amaris!"

Badru cried, "Let's go inside!"

Our six heroes entered into the volcano's caverns and started traversing higher into the mountain and they came across a kangaskahn statue and decided to rest for the night.

(Robin's dream)

Robin started wandering around and saw himself as a human as he was climbing onto a trapeze platform and saw a man and woman falling to their dooms and in a split second he saw the two as blazekins and he cried, "MOM! DAD!" but the words that came out were, "MAMI! TATI!"

Robin felt the platform fading into nothingness and he fell into darkness only to see a Caucasian man with a lean face and high cheekbones, hair as black as shadiness of his character, he had a small gap between his incisors, as he liked to chew on toothpicks thus making that gap. He was dressed a dark blue suit with a white shirt and red tie, and a wide rimmed black fedora.

The man fired the gun as he laughed hysterically and Robin let out a blood curdling scream of pain as the bullet penetrated his small body and the last thing he saw in his reflection was a boy of ten with black hair and one dark blue eye, the other blue eye covered in a domino mask. He was dressed in a red bulletproof vest that had green sleeves. A black and yellow cape wrapped around his shoulders like the wings of a bird and the boy's blue eyes became glassy finalizing his death.

(End of dream)

Robin woke up with sweat that was on his feathered face. He started crying, "I'm so sorry."

Amaris could not sleep and she saw Robin crying, she walked over to him and asked, "What's wrong?"

Robin muttered, "What if mom and dad end up dead?"

Amaris answered, "Robin it was probably a nightmare you had, now we need to get off of this mountain and find Hecate."

Our six reached to the top and just as they were about to run they were stopped by a yellow bird with a long orange beak wreathed in flames.

The bird boomed, "You come to my mountain?! I am Phoenix the Fire of Renewal and if you don't get off my mountain, I'll make sure that you burn by my wrath!"

Amaris cried, "We're trying to, please let us pass!"

Phoenix snapped, "I hear the mountain's cry now prepare for battle."

Robin cried, "I faced enemies like you before!" He tried to use his ember, but to no avail as Phoenix used agility.

Irwin cried, "Oi! Flame Chicken! Try to face my water gun!"

He shot water from his mouth causing damage to the legendary bird.

Irwin spat an ice beam and he cried, "Looks like you're frozen!"

Phoenix broke free and he snarled, "You'll burn for this!"

Irwin ended up having flame on his tail as he cried as he rolled to put the fire down, "CRIKEY! Badru! Luna! Attack!"

Badru and Luna used their fury swipe attack, but they missed as they almost fell in the lava and Amaris unleashed a thunder wave paralyze him.

Amaris wanted to finish him off, but she threw an Oran berry at Irwin and cried, "Your shot for glory!"

Irwin ate the berry and cried, "Water gun!" as Phoenix fired his flame and the two started to spark simultaneously and the water became stronger and it extinguished the flames on Phoenix.

Phoenix fainted, but got up and just as he was about to fire he started to see Amaris, Robin and Irwin together.

He cried, "You three are the same trio that defeated my brother. What are you doing here?"

Irwin answered, "We came here to find Hecate in hopes to find out the real cause of the disasters. Please let us pass! We'll return when we're older and wiser."

Phoenix looked into Irwin's eyes and he said in a solemn voice, "Very well. Hecate lives in the legendary Mt. Freeze. Be warned the road leads to the frozen forest where my brother Laufey lives. Yet due to these calamities he has become as cold as the ice he wields."

Robin said, "Thank you."

The six got off the mountain and Robin said, "We may have come far I think we've outran every rescue team."

Amaris said, "There's Team ACT lead by Gandalf and it's highly likely they're gaining on us."

Irwin complained, "Ah crikey. I thought we'd rest here for a moment."

Akantha said, "By nightfall, we'll probably get caught. We need to reach the frozen forest."

Author's Notes: Looks like the heroes have more steps to go. Will they find Hecate? Tune in next chapter.